THE TIMES, JfEW BLOOMFIELl), PA..
AUGUST
27, 1878.
A WOMAN'S MISTAKE. ,
MISS JESSAMINE hail just emerg
ed, yawning, from her bed-room,
although the tun was five hours high
and Its merry elgzag of gold were pencil
ing the casements, after a pattern which
no artist under heaven could hope to
imitate.
And Kitty, the colored maid who had
accompanied her mistress from Mobile,
and regarded this Northern climate as a
very Polar region, was attending her
with chocolate. Vienna bread and a
broiled chicken's wing.
George Jessamine was on a visit to
her father's cousin, Mrs. Hartley. MaJ.
Joseph Jessamine, her father, had been
a well-to-do planter in Alabama before
the war, but he was neither more nor
less, at present, than a genteel beggar,
nd Mrs. Dartley 's Invitation to Georgia
had been hailed with delight. ' ,
" I only wish she had asked me, too,"
said the major.
So Georgia Jessamine was supplied
with an elegant wardrobe (purchased
mostly on credit) and went North, to
seek her fortune.
Mre. Dartley was a rich widow, who
lived in a handsome house,scattercd her
money to and fro with liberal hand and
dwelt in a perpetual whirl of balls, par
ties, soirees and receptions. And into
this sort of life Mlns Jessamine plunged,
as you may have seen a bee dive Joyous
ly Into the deep bill of a honeysuckle.
" If I can only make a good match
here in New York, I never need go back
to that tumble-down old house In Mo
bile," said Miss Jessamine to herself.
And, thus pondering, she devoted the
entire energies of her nature to the at
tainment of the aforesaid ' good match.'
' Claude Dartley, her cousin, came un
der that head. Claude was handsome,
witty and wealthy. But Georgia was a
little afraid of Claude. She never could
quite understand whether he was laugh
ing at her or not. But, in spite of all
that, she smiled sweetly on Claude, as
first and foremost among the " eligl
bles" on her list, and had built many
castles in the air, whereof he formed the
foundation.
Last night, at Mrs. Penfleld's mmicdle
lie had been especially devoted,aud Miss
Jessamine's spirits were high, as she
drank the foaming chocolate and nib
bled at the Vienna twists.
In a minute, however, a blue-ribboned
maid came to the door.
" Mis9 Jessamine," said she, with a
little apologetic courtesy, "would you
please come down to the parlor t There
is a young lady there, asking for you."
" A young lady V" repeated Georgia,
staring at the oppoiste clock, which re
corded an hour too early for fashionable
calls. " Where Is her card, Fanny V"
-.' She didn't send up any card, miss,"
replied the maid.
. " Did she ask for me by name V"
" Well, miss, she asked for my mis
tress first, and then, when I said she
was gone to Signor Arditi's tositfora
portrait, but you was in, she said might
she see you a minute." .
Georgia Jessamine glanced down at
the folds of her rose-colored cashmere
morning wrapper, and then at the oppo
site mirror, to see if the braids of her
rich black hair were in good order.
" I suppose I must go down," said
she, slowly ; " but if it should be one of
those tiresome subscription collectors, or
patent dress-supporter venders"
Katy made a grimace at Fanny as the
door closed behind the rustling trails of
Miss Jessamine's rose-colored dress.
" De young missee, she don't t'nk no.
body hain't no business to lib but her
self," said she, "She's dat selfish de
good Lord ought to have created a little
glass globe ober her, to keep off de rest
of de world."
Meanwhile, Miss Jessamine, sweeping
down the stairs into the drawing-room,
found herself face to face with a pale,
lvely girl, in rather shabby mourning,
who carried a morocco traveling-bag and
iield two or three volumes in her other
band. ,
" Did you ask for me V" she demand.
d, superciliously. .
The young lady bowed.'
" I have undertaken the agency of a
new publication," said she, hurriedly,
and not without embarrassment
" Lane's Life of Martha Washington'
and should be happy to put down your
name as a subscriber. The price is "
-rray aon t irouoie yourself to go
on," saia ueorgia, coldly. " 1 never
-subscribe to any such thing. And
think it the height of insolence for you
to come here pushing yourself into the
presence of your superiors on such a
pretext as this I How do I know that
.you are not one of those sneak-thieves,
who make your way into people's houses
in order to carry off their valuable par
lor ornaments V" ' i
; The young lady had colored scarlet at
first, and then grew deadly pale. '
" Miss Jessamine " she said.
" That will do," tartly interposed the
liaughty Georgia. "I don't care about
entering into any discussion with you.
At all-events, it Is highly unfemlnlne to
go about peddling thlngn, like arty com
mon peanut woman t And I brg you'll
not repeat it in this house." i s
She pointed imperiously to the open
door,and .poor Amy IIortpn,who,among
all the slights and snubs incident to re
duced means, had never yet received a
verbal castlgation equal to this, hurried
from her presence with cheeks aflame
and eyelids wet with unshed tears.
" Therel" said Miss Jessamine to her-
self, as she went up stairs again; "I
think I've paid her off for breaking ine
away from my half-finished breakfast.
As for you, Fanny" to the damsel in
the blue ribbons" if ever you admit
such a person as that again, I Bhall cer
tainly request Mrs. Dartly to discharge
you." ; ' . :
Fanny tossed her head, and would
have made a pert rejoinder, had she
dared, for there was not a servant in the
Dartley household that liked Miss Jessa
mine. , i ,
But it so chanced that Claude Dartley
himself, looking over the morning pa
pers, in the library, had heard the whole
Interview, through the parlor door that
Georgia had neglected to close.
Involuntarily he rose and came for
ward, resolved to do what in him lay for
the healing of the cruel wound Inflicted
by Miss Georgia Jessamine's unwomanly
words. . . ...
Pardon me," said he, " but may I
look at the publication you have for
Bale ? I am very deeply grieved that
my cousin should have treated you so
rudely, and"
But as she glanced wistfully up in his
face, he started back, with an exclama
tion of surprise.
"Amyllortonl Can it be possible."
" I did not expect to see you here, Mr.
Dartley," said the girl, hurriedly. " I
asked for the lady of the house. I did
not know who lived here."
" But, Amy, I don't understand this.
You General March's niece and
adopted uauguter selling books for a
livelihood !"
It does seem strange, don't it 5"' said
Amy with a faint smile. " Butyou don't
know all. Uncle March is dead, and all
his property has gone to his second wife.
I was only a dependent, and I could not
endure that sort of life ; sol am striv
ing to maintain myself. I came to New
York, because I thought I could do bet
ter here than in a smaller city, but but
I am almost discouraged."
Claude Dartley took her hand and
gazed reproachfully into her face.
" Amy," said he, " why did you not
let me know when you were in trouble V
Had you forgotten our old friendship V"
" I thought I had no right," she fal
tered.
" No right, Amy V Would you have
let yourself drift away from me for
ever V"
And Amy Horton hung down . her
bright golden head and faintly mur
mured: ,
"I don't know!" . . '
,,, .
Mr. Dartley was in the inner office of
the law chambers of Messrs. Falkland,
Burgh & Co., that afternoon, when Miss
Jessamine rustled in, with a strong
smell of " Jockey Club," and a a little
tinkle of affected laughter.
Mr. Burgh, the only representative of
the aristocratic young firm, rose and
bowed low.
" Pray excuse our segar smoke, Miss
Jessamine," said he.
" Oh, that's nothing," said Georgia,
taking the leather-cover chair that he
offered her. " I'm so glad, that I found
you in. I want to put your name down
for some tickets for aunt Bella's charity
charades. Very private and select.
Five dollars a ticket. And I shall ex
iAf vnn f A tfllro nt. lpnat. Viftlf a tnian "
y-v j v . . - -
" Consider my limited means, Miss
Jessamine!" pleaded the young lawyer,
with a comical screwing up or nis eye
brows.
"Oh, you must!" insisted Georgia,
relentlessly. "I've undertaken to sell
fifty, and I never go back from my
word. Who's that in the inner office ?
Mr. Falkland ? Whoever it is must
give me a round subscription,"
She had just started up to go into the
other, room, when her purpose was
anticipated by the appearance of her
cousin Claude on the threshhold.
" Oh, It's Claude !" cried she, radi
antly. "Well, lean scarcely levy a
tribute upon him, after he has given
toward our costumes and scenery."
" Stop a minute, Georgia 1" said the
young man, quietly. i " You are selling
tickets now. Will you allow me to ask
wherein consists the difference between
you and tne young lady wnom you so
grossly insulted in my mother's draw
ing-room this morning f Will you let
me repeat your very words, 4 that it Is
highly unfemlnlne to go about peddling
things,1' like ; any common peanut
woman 1" ' " ; '.''
Georgia colored high. ' ' '
' 44 Claude," stammered she, 44 1 I'm
very sorry. I didn't Know you were
within bearing t and it was only a book
agent, after all."
"There you are mistaken," said Mr.
Dartley, with stlnglDg coldness. "It
was Miss Amy Horton, the young lady
who Is shortly to become my wife."
And Georgia Jessamine knew that
she had committed a fatal mistake.
She went back to the tumble-down
house in Mobile, and there shd remains
yet, too proud to work for a living ; and
although Amy has written her a kind
invitation to visit her, Miss Jessamine
has not the face to accept It.
Mad Stones Soma Facts About Them.
'fmiTTH is the irreatest curiosity in
X , my whole collection," said Prof
Worth.
The place was Worth's Museum, on
Woodward avenue, Detroit, and the per
son addressed was a iVcu's reporter. The
professor held In his hand a flattened
circle of stone, about three luches in
diameter and an inch and a half thick,
in shape resembling a good-sized biscuit
with the top and bottom scooped out.
The color was a dirty red,and it weighed
about three.quarters of a pound. The
reporter took it in his hand, looked it
all over intently, but could not see any
thing very curious about it.
"No idea what It is! Well, sir, that
is the famous Virginia mad stone. It
has been applied in numerous cases of
poisoning for dog and snake bites, and
has Invariably cured the victim. This
one has a known record of 80 years. S.
II. Aron, of Virginia, got it from the
Indians, and when he died it came into
the possession of his son, George Aron,
who presented it to his family physi
cian, Dr. L. L. Alexander, of Spring
Hill, Henry county, Tenn., in 1875, in
gratitude for past service. The doctor
was attending lectures at the university,
Louisville, Ky., when I learned that he
had the mad-stone. After four inter
views he finally consented to Bell it to
nie, and it is no
of my museum."
" Did you ever cure any body with
ltV"
Yes Sir, two cases a man and a boy
in St. Louis, Missouri, last year, while
exhibiting on Fifth street. They were
both bitten by mad dogs. I first punc
tured the place they were bitten with
these needles. (Here the professor held
up a bunch of 18 needles stuck through
a cork). Then, having previously put
the stone in a bath of milk and water, I
applied It to the wound. It adhered im
mediately, and stuck bo fast that it hung
to the flesh without any support. In a
few minutes the milk on the surface of
the stone turned green as verdigris, and
emitted a repulsive odor. After being
saturated with the virus It came off,
when I put it In another bath of milk
and water, and It discharged the poison.
Then I put it on again, and repeated the
process several times till the virus was
all extracted and the patient removed
from danger, "i
1 Are there many more of the mad-
stones V" asked the reporter.
" There are 18 known to be owned by
different parties in the United States-
The most famous Is the Turner Evans
mad-stone, which is owned by a farmer
of that name who lives near Aramosa,
Iowa. It has been in his family for
about 130 years, having been handed
down from father to son for four genera
tions. The stone has been applied over
700 times, and in every case was success
ful. It has been applied to horses,cattle
and human beings. There is one owned
by a man in Lincoln, Kansas, (I forget
his name, but everybody about there
has heard of it and knows the owner).
It is of Irregular shape, broken in two,
and held together with a metal band.
" The widow Taylor, of Terre Haute,
Ind., has one also of irregular shape,
also broken, and also held together the
same way. On one occasion a locomo
tive was chartered especially to go to
Terre Haute for this stone. There are
two owned in Missouri, one at Caronde-
let and the other by Judge Griffin, who
resides five miles from St.Charles. There
is another owned in Virginia, between
Lynchburg and Charlottesville. I can't
remember the others. The Burlington
Hawkeye" published a list of the
owners of mad-stones in August last,
and I have got it, but can't find itamong
my papers.
" Do the owners make any charge for
applying the stone "
44 Yes ; they generally charge from $50
to $100, and none of them will let the
stone go out of their possession. They
always go with it when it has to be ap
plied. The only persons who give gratu
itous uses are Turner, Evans and my-
self. Judge Griffin and the man at
Carondelet have each refused $3,000 for
their mad-stones. The modus operandi
of using it Is generally the same, but
the Virginia man cleans the virus out
of his stone by heating it on a hot shovel
instead of bathing it in milk."
44 How do vou account for its wonder
ful power.' 1
41 1 don't know the true scientific rea
son, but it is evident that there are
properties In them which have a chemi
cal affinity for the virus,and a repulsion
for water and milk. It Is claimed by a
brother and sister who' live in Logan
county, Illinois, that their inad-Aton
will cure erysipelas, which I suppose In
produced by tainted blood. Anyhow,
they go on the no cure no pay principle.
The Cost of Meddling. ) ;
A laughable inoldent occurred at the
lake on Sunday morning. There Is a
steam ferry-boat plying between the
beach on the Charlotte side and the
mouth of the river. Bunday morning,
Ferryman Williams made a run across
with some half a dozen passengers, and
landed safely on the Summervllle side.
He also went bshore with them, having
Interested himself in conversation with
one of the party, but suddenly, to his
surprise, he saw his ship leaving him,
and making rapid progress for the oppo
site shore.
It seems one of the passengers had
been inspecting the engine in the en
gine room, and opened the steam valve,
and Bet the machine running, but did
not know how to stop it. - Williams
shouted to the fellow to turn the valve
over this way, making the motion with
his hands. ... .. . , , ;
The fellow In attempting to obey
orders, turned tne valve, but . sure
enough, turned it the . wrong way, and
set the machine running faster. Then
he turned it the other way ; but as it
did not stop immediately he again
turned It the other way. Then he turned
again and again, and finally he gave it
up. , ,
He came outside and said he couldn't
stop the old machine. Williams was
sufficient for the work, however) for he
ran to the club house, obtained a pair
of oars, jumped into one of the little
boats which were pulled up on the pier,
and made for his runaway boat, reach,
lug it just in time to save it from strik
lng heavily against the opposite pier.
Rochester Express.
Experiences of a Tramp.
The Indianapolis "News" say9: A
44 News" reporter met a strange charac
ter lying upon the grass in Military
park under the shade of a great oak
tree. He was a man nearly or quite
sixty years of age, and though ragged
in his clothing, dirty in his person and
uncouth in his conversation, showed
that he was of more than usual intelli
gence. He said that he was a tramp,
and had been in this country nearly ten
years. 44 When I came," he said, " the
tramp business here had not begun, and
I found found rich pickings. Now it's
overdone, and where we at that time
received feed and good treatment at
every farm house, in every village and
in every city, we now find things quite
different. In the country the dogs are
set on us, in the village they often get
the bully of the place to beat us.
41 See that eye,'' said he, lifting his hat
which had kept the left side of his face
shadowed, and disclosing an eye' in
which the blood had settled in the white,
and above and below which were black-
and-blue bruises. Done by a blacksmith
at Brazil. His wife told him I Insulted
her. Besides that, I tried to take pne of
his shirts, a calico one, off a line. We
do better in cities. When we want
rest from padding the hoof in Greenland
(tramping in the country) we come to
the city, get sent up for a couple of weeks
or so and are rested. I've been in a good
many work-houses in England. I've
been a tramp all my life but it's way
behind this country. . .
We do better here than we do there,
It's a little tough sometimes in winter,
specially with the green ones, but I can
do most anything. It runs in my family
I've got a brother in Bristol, England, a
gonnoff. (retired thief), who has settled
down to a good business. I used to be
"wire" (pickpocket) myself, but I'm
getting old and clumsy. The best dodge
I find in winter is the 41 shallow lay.
You don't know what that is. Well
It's to sham starving. I've rubbed in
dlgo on my face and hands to look blue-
cold. With this I look my hungriest,
It's a prime " do" and never fails to
touch the charitable. You can get al
most anything you want by that dodge,
A Snake that Likes Cream.
Mrs. Judge D. W. Rowe has been
missing cream from a certain jug in her
milk cellar. Its disappearance was
mystery that could not be unravelled
Various ways were suggested to account
for its appropriation but none were satis
factory, until Mrs. Rowe on entering
the cellar on last Wednesday evening
discovered the thief. Mrs. R. saw
snake colled around the Jug from which
the cream had been wont to disappear
and from the position the snake was
then in, it was evident It was engaged
in emptying the jug of its contents.
Mrs. R., not liking her company, made
a rather hasty exit, and when she re
turned with others, his snakeshlp had
vacated. The cellar is closely cemented,
and the snake must have found its way
in and out through the open windows.
It is supposed that the snake was a cop
perhead, and is still at large and enjoy
ing good health. Greenoaalla Press.
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